Oldfieldia

Oldfieldia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Tribe: Picrodendreae
Subtribe: Paiveusinae
Genus: Oldfieldia
Benth. & Hook.f.
Synonyms
  • Paivaeusa Welw. ex Benth.
  • Cecchia Chiov.

Oldfieldia is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, the only member of its subtribe (Paiveusinae). It was described as a genus in 1850.

Oldfieldia is native to Africa.

Species

Oldfieldia is after Richard Albert Kearns Oldfield (R.A.K Oldfield) the British plant collector in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and surgeon on the 1832-1834 Niger River expedition with Laird and Lauder

  1. Oldfieldia africana Benth. & Hook.f. - Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo
  2. Oldfieldia dactylophylla (Welw. ex Oliv.) J.Léonard - Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola
  3. Oldfieldia macrocarpa J.Léonard - Democratic Republic of the Congo
  4. Oldfieldia somalensis (Chiov.) Milne-Redh - Somali, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Bentham, George & Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1850. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 2: 184-186 description in Latin, commentary in English
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Oldfieldia Benth. & Hook. f.
  4. ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants.